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Residents complain about the declining quality of life in Mallorca.
The Spanish island is constantly battling a waste problem.
Cala d'Or - Mallorca is a popular destination for German pensioners who want to spend their retirement on the Spanish holiday island.
In the Cala d'Or coastal section, a resident complains about the deteriorating quality of life.
The main reason is the rubbish lying around everywhere, which not only bothers the eye but also smells unpleasant.
Mallorca and the garbage problem
The garbage problem in Mallorca is a well-known topic.
Both locals and tourists repeatedly express their displeasure about the dirt on the streets, sidewalks and beaches.
To counteract this, the Ministry of the Sea deployed boats around the Balearic Islands from July to September 2023 to remove garbage from the sea.
The results of this campaign, which the
Mallorca Zeitung
summarized in November 2023, were sobering: with 27.8 tons of garbage, an increase of 7.6 tons was recorded compared to the previous year.
The situation seems to be getting worse, especially in Cala d'Or, as a German pensioner reports to
Mallorca Magazine
.
The place is actually known for its idyll.
It was originally created by the gallery owner and illustrator Josep Costa Ferrer (1879-1971), who created a housing estate there in the style of his home island of Ibiza in the early 1930s.
“Smell of rubbish in the air”: Residents complain about rubbish in the holiday resort
A long-time resident, who has lived in Cala d'Or for almost five decades, describes the poor conditions to the magazine: “We lived here like in paradise for a long time!
But those days are now over, because instead of a pleasant sea breeze, the smell of garbage is now increasingly in the air.” He says he feels like he’s in a landfill.
Garbage is piling up on a beach in Mallorca.
© Geisser/IMAGO
The 70-year-old pensioner adds: “Initially there were only four garbage containers on the street, now there are ten and all the restaurants in the area dump their leftover food here.” According to his observation, the main problem is that the waste is next to the designated areas Containers are unloaded and, in addition to regular garbage, bulky waste such as old furniture is also disposed of.
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When asked by
Mallorca Magazine,
the town hall explained that it had not yet been informed about the problem, but promised to forward the information to the relevant authorities and to take care of it as quickly as possible.
Mallorca's measures against garbage
Despite an existing recycling system in Mallorca that separates waste into plastic, glass, paper and organic, and although single-use plastic and the dumping of bulky and private waste next to public containers are banned, the Spanish island continues to struggle with waste problems.
This is also due to party tourism.
To crack down on litter offenders, the island is trying to impose fines.
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